Making cards - Ideas for a card craft beginner (part 2)

hels102

Hello Crazychatter! I've also recently started card making I'm totally hooked!
I bet yours arn't boring! There are very talented people in here so you'll get plenty of ideas and advice!:beer:

ZLS1984

Hi and welcome to all the newbies, looking forward to seeing your cards.

Sorry off topic but had to scream, my daughters school has just told me that she can only wear school colour bobbles only. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

melissa75_2

ZLS - "school coloured bobbles", what a joke! My sons school is starting to get silly as well with all these stupid rules.
Crazychatter - welcome!
Hels102 - there's A5 blank cards - these are just a piece of a4 folded in half, and then there's a6 or c6 as they're also called which is A4 cut in half and then folded in half. I'm not sure about the normal dimensions of square cards as I don't use them. There's also DL cards which are tall and thin, again I don't know the exact dimensions.
Odollybird - 130 quid!! That should keep you going for a bit, welcome to the thread!

RustyFlange

ZLS1984 wrote: »

Hi and welcome to all the newbies, looking forward to seeing your cards.

Sorry off topic but had to scream, my daughters school has just told me that she can only wear school colour bobbles only. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

You are having a laugh???

If they told me this I would immediately go shopping to find the brightest most flourescent colours I could find and make sure she had more than 4 bobbles in her hair but then that is just me

crazychatter

RustyFlange wrote: »

You are having a laugh???

If they told me this I would immediately go shopping to find the brightest most flourescent colours I could find and make sure she had more than 4 bobbles in her hair but then that is just me

lol! this happened when I was at senior school, suddenly only green, blue or yellow bands were allowed. Each form had a representative who had reguarly meetings with the Heads of Years so we all got together and said that black hair bands should also be allowed, they relented and all was fine.
Then Britney Spears did her school girl music video wearing big colourful scrunchys so there was a craze for them! I remember the Head Teacher walking around telling girls to take them out as they looked like 'dopey dora'! They did look a bit silly though!

Does anyone have a trimmer that cuts the corners into a nice curve? I rubbish at doing it by hand and think it might make a big difference to my cards..

fluffyb

Ok, here goes then. A few of my cards








I will see if these work - got some more I can show you too

JailhouseBabe

Staying OT but on the school theme - when DD started juniour school (very posh, private with a scholarship) I was a single mum and full-time student. I picked her up a lovely coat from a local shop that sold 'as new' clothes on a commission for the seller. It looked like new, was nice and warm, and patterned with soft pastel pink and green flowers; the school wrote to me to tell me it was too bright for school and I had to buy her something in navy or black. I stuck my heels in, pointed out the amount of rich kids in brighter coats and they eventually relented.

That set a trend for her entire school life there I'm afraid - one rule for the better-off, another for the scholarship kids. I appreciate there has to be rules and dress codes, as long as they're consistent. But FGS - hair bobbles? You'd think that the teachers/governors would have more important things to worry about!

JailhouseBabe

fluffybishop - they're brilliant! I particularly like the first one. Will you be entering one of them in the challenge?

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mary43

fluffybishop - brilliant cards:T

Marg

fluffybishop Love your cards - the playing cards in particular are inventive - thanks for showing us!

I'm with you JailhouseBabe - They'd do better to concentrate as much on teaching as they do on silly rules.